The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-07 00:00:00

Na` 'al and Military Intelligence, The iron screw steamship Black Prince, 41, Cap tain C. B. fV•inwright, second in command, and five other sh ips belonging to the Channel squadron, were hove to inside the Eddystone at halfapast four o'clock yesterday afternoon, under steam. At six o'clock, o ne of them, supposed to be the iron cased ship R oyal Oak, 35, Capt. Frederick A. Campbell, er itered the Sound, and is now at anchor inside the ineakwater. Wind S.W., a smart breeze, with thick rain, and heavy weather im pending. The Defence, armour-clad, Capt. Phillimore, one of the Channel fleet, was expected to anchor off Clev edon yesterday evening, or by this morning's tide, previous to visiting Bristol harbour. Her Maj esty's, 13, steam corvette Niger, 1,072 tons and 400-horse power, paid off at Woolwich by Captain Peter Cracroft, C. 8., on her return from New Zealand, is again progressing for corn- I mission. She has been partly built up anew in No. 3 Dock at Woolwich, at a cost of upwards of £lO,OOO. She was constructed in Woolwich dock yard in 1846, under the superintendence and. after the designs of Mr. 0. Lang, the master Shipwright of the yard, and was afterwards lengthened 16ft. aft, and was many years on the Mediterranean and l'acific stations. Sae is ROW masted and rigged in preparation for commission. Her Majesty's steam gunvessel Landrail, paid off at Woolwich from the North America and West India atation, Commander Thomas H. Martin, has decks, has unde rgone bawl su pplied with new gen eral repairs in hull and machinery at Woolwich an d is advancing rapidly for the pennant. The Forte, 39, screw steam frigate, 2,364 tons, 400-hoarse power, Capt. A. Mellersh, lately arrived at Sheerness from the south-east coast of America, has been dismantled, and returned stores, ammu nition, &c. She will be paid out of commission on Thursday next. The 100-pounder smooth-bore guns which arrived at Chatham from the Royal gun factory in the War Department transports Marlborough and 80. marstind, for the iron frigate Achilles, have been landed at the Ordnance-wharf, and will not be A hipped on board the Achilles for some days, the delay arising from the fracture of the chain at the lei-gent crane used in shipping the guns, and the neg. essity for procuring another of a stronger de• seri ption. The chartered troopship Roxburgh Castle, 1,121 tons, Capt. C. Dimsdale (Sub-Lieut. Royal Naval Rese,rve), belonging to Messrs. Green and Co., which has b 3en chartered by the Government for the con• veyat ce of Royal Artillery to Australia, embarked at Gravesend yesterday, Lieut.-Col. C. H. Smith, Lieut. W. H. Graham, Lieut. A. L. C. Smithett, Lieut. C. Boyd, Assist.-Staff-Surg. J. T. Milburn, 6 sergeants, 8 corporals, 2 buglers, and 86 gunners of N 0.7 battery, 2d brig. : Royal Artillery, from Dover, ogether with 13 women and 17 children, the whole o. whom proceed to Melbourne. Prior to the troops en tbarking the Roxburgh Castle was inspected by Ms jor•General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., com =aiding the Chatham district, in order to ascertain that the whole of the arrangements for the health and comfort of the non-commissioned officers and men during the voyage were complete. The troops embarked under the direction of Col. Jackson and the officers connected with the Quartermaster's staff at Chatham garrison. Tne Roxburgh Castle i fitted with one of Dr. Normandy's steam fresh. ater distilling apparatus, whin is capable of pro fit, cing 500 gallons of fresh water from the sea daily. In addition to the troops, the vessel takes out about 50 frst and second class passengers, together with a la, - ge and valuable miscellaneous cargo. The itoxbx trgh Castle was intended to leave the Thames last evening, and at sunset had her blue peter flying. Tha Linnet, gunboat, 60 horse power, after hay- iog been. fitted with a condenser to her high-pres sure ere r ;ine, was on Taesday taken to the measured mile off Maplin Sands, for trial. The vessel was under tits command of Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., and Kr. J. J. Greathead, chief engineer, and Mr. S. Town,shend, foreman of steam factory in her Majesty's dockyard at Sheerness, had charge of the machinery. The trial was conducted with results 3 7hich are perfectly satisfactory, and are as fol. IC ?r3 :—True mean speed, 6.807 knots per hour; r evolutions, 142 per minute ; pressure of steam, 451 b. ; vacuum, 27 ; load on safety valve, 6016, The vessel gent round the circle, with helm hard over at starboard, and two men at the wheel, in lm. 60 ; the draught of water during the trial was, for siiard, 7ft. 2.in ; aft, Bft. 2in. ; the time under way and at full speed was four hours ; the force of wind, 6 ; and the direction, N.W. The sea had a slig, h t swell. The vessel was fully rigged and ready for sea, having 34 tons of coal on board. Vice-Admiral the Hon. Thomas Best died on Sunday last at Hyde Park-square. The de ceatced admiral was second son of the late Lord Wynford, formerly Chief Justice of the Court o. Common Pleas, and was born August 12, 1799. He entered the navy November 3, 1812, on board the Ramillies, 74, and after assisting in capturing the islands in Pasamaquoddy Bay, and bombarding the town of Stonington, was employed on the Irish and South American stations. He was advanced to the rank of Lieut. March 6, 1822, and in that capacity was employed off Newfoundland, in the Channel, in the Mediterranean, and again in South America, and obtained Commander's rank April 30,1827. He commanded the Icarus, 10, on the Jamaica station, from March, 1828, until December, 1829, and was Second Capt. of the William and Mary yacht from January 14, 1830, until advanced to Post rank July 22 following. He became Rear-Admiral on the re served list October 3, 1856, and Vice Admiral Nov. 10, 1862. Admiral Best married in 1835 Mary Anne, the daughter of the second Baron Kenyon. The decision has at length been adopted by the Horse Guards, to employ the various drummer boys, buglers, and other lads attached to the Royal Engi neer Establishment, Chatham, in some one or more of the trades followed by the Royal Engineers, and so training them up to become skilled workmen. Accordingly an order has been received at heads quarters, Cnatham, from the Horse Guards, direct ing the whole of the boys to be classified, and each to be allowed to select the trade in which he is de sirous of being employed. In accordance with the above instructions, the whole of the boys and lads were paraded at Brampton barracks yesterday, and each requested to state the trade he was desirous of learning. As each boy announced his desire he was at once sent off to the Engineer workshops, where they will be instructed in the trades now prac tised at the Royal Engineer establishment, including printing, engraving, photography, the trades of car penters, bricklayers, wheelwrights, smiths, masons, and the other branches taught to the Royal Sappers and Miners. As an incentive to the boys to obtain a perfect knowledge of the trade they have selected the Duke of Cambridge has directed that, in addi tion to their regimental pay of is 3id per day, each lad shall receive 3d per day working pay. A garrison order was issued at Woolwich on Monday, announcing that Major-Gen. Warde, C. 8., Commandant, would commence his half-yearly in. spection yesterday of the troops and barrack quar ters throughout the district within his command, commencing wiai the 4th division depot brigade. Ou account of the stormy state of the weather, the order was countermanded, and the following order was yesterday issued in ita place—" The 4th divi sion depot brigade and the 4th brigade Royal Ar tillery will assemble on Woolwich-common at 10 a.m. to-morrow morning in marching order, and will go through the general's half-yearly inspec tion.', The whole of the inspection, according to ordi nary circumstances, will occupy upwards of a month, including fortifications along the Themes, Warley, and other places within the district. The 2d nompeny of the Royal Engineers, which proceeds to the Mauritius to relieve one of the com panies at that s t at i on whose period of colonial ser vice has expired, has received orders to leave Chat ham garrison on the 20th inst. for ernbarcation. The reinforcement of Royal Engineers to augment the 68th company in New Zealand, as well as those ordered to join the 32d company in St. Helena, will also embark on the 20th inst., the detachment for the 6th company proceeding with the other reinforcements in the troopship Light Brigade. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Francis S D. B rough , - ton, to the Brisk ; Lieut. Coryndon P. Boger, to the Duke of Wellington ; Lieut. George S. Brown, to the Exccillent ; Lieut. Herbert Hilton, to the Canopus ; Lieut. Robert Ross, to the Lion ; Charles E. Tremain, clerk, additional, to the Seringapag tarn ; E. Elliot, assist.-clerk, to the Seringapatam ; and W. C. Reed, nominated to a naval cadetship. The following appointments have been made in the Royal Natal Reserve ;--To be lieutenant, Mal colm Green ; to be honorary lieutenants, Nathan Wynard Haaelwood and Theophilus Godolphin Hinson. -- - -- ... _ ....-.-. with flowering plants. In the first place, shelter was indispensible, so a mound was thrown up and planted with shrubs and trees, to serve as a screen and a defence against the nipping under-currents which, even in an English summer, often strike death to the tender exotic. All the beds were raised, and a bottom of dry brick rubbish was given to each to promote drainage and increase warmth. Then the mould was placed above, composed of loam, sand, and decayed leaves, which satisfies the wants of most of the plants, though occasionally a stimulus is ne cessary in the shape of a little well-rotted manure applied to the surface, so that when rain falls, or water applied,the washings are conveyed to the roots The choice tropical plants are stored during the winter, and as the warm weather approaches they undergo a gradual process of hardening. First they are not trusted except under glass ; then they are allowed to breathe the outer air when the sun is most powerful ; then they are placed under canvas ; and finally, when summer has really come, they are suffered not to run but to grow alone without further housing. Soon, in the sheltered recesses and nooks and on the sloping banks provided for them, they become, with hardly an exception, thoroughly at home, and remain perfectly healthy. Here is a bed of caladium esculentum, from the West Indies, with big leaves not to be matched in England, and a root which, when no better food can be had, is said to make good eating. Austra. lien tree ferns are throwing out their graceful leaves as luxuriantly as though they were still under glass. By-and-by they will be Bft. or 10ft. high. For convenience of moving, each is now in a sunk pot or tab, so that it can be taken easily back to its winter quarters. Shade to some plants is as essential as sunlight to others, so the ferns are shaded by willow trees which droop down with something like affection to meet them. The India. rubber plant is growing in great profusion. So is the Banana and the curious Indian shot plant. Further on we come to the variegated Croton, and the beautiful scarlet foliage of the Dragon's-blood tree from South America. Here is a tropical plant, the Canna limbata, which deserves recognition for bravely contending with the rigours of an Eng lish winter. As an experiment it was left out all the year with a simple covering of dry litter, and it was a great reward to Mr Gibson, the superin tendent of the park, to find it afterwards even more healthy than plants of the same species which had been taken up from the ground and nursed through the winter. Leaving the foliage plants for a moment the eye is caught by a fanciful bed of flowers divided into diamonds by cross belts of a hardy Alpine plant, the opposite-leaved cedum, while in the diamonds are gay geraniums of varied hues, with lobelias, the scarlet amaranthus, a recent Japanese inaporta• tion, and a central group composed of the silvery leafed centuria. In this and other beds geraniums are kept shorn of their flowers, their chief glory being in the leaf, which contains three colours at least, yellow predominating, and forms a rich con trast to the flowers and shrubs around. More foliage plants of tropical origin now claim notice, and especially the Ferdinandia eminens, which here in its adopted country, and standing now in the open air, has increased its height by six or seven feet in a single season. Gardeners of skill have, we believe, declared this to be an impossibility ; but there is the plant, growing apparently as though to spite them. Here is a fine bed cf Wygandia, which lives, when at home, in Caraccas, and is remarkable for the stinging properties of its leaves and the great weight of its delicately-marked foliage, which renders ne cessary some artificial support for the stem. This plant bears the rough weather up to November without taking harm. The Canna discolor is grouped effectively with a background of caster oil plants, which grow vigorously in the open air and produce immense leaves till the seed which is now beginning to set checks their growth. The English insects highly appreciate the flavour of the new corners, especially that most pertinacious of our garden in sects—the earwig —which grows as fat upon its new food as an alderman upon unlimited turtle. The Wygandia, however, appears to have brought its own caterpillar, or to have developed a new one, which commits considerable ravages on the very succulent leaf of this plant. There are many more varieties than we can enumerate, but these will hardly escape notice—the large leaved tobacco plant; a new variety of the sugarcane from Japan ; the coral tree, with its beautiful and suggestive flower; the Dracteaa nutans, a most graceful com bination of drooping with upright leaves; a Southern emblem, the Palmetto palm; the Date palm; the Rice-paper plant of China; the Papyrus plant of Egypt, and the veritable Bulrush of the Nile. To Mr. Gibson belongs the great merit of having carried to success and upon a large scale an experi• ment which proves either that tropical plants are more hardy or the English climate is less harsh and uugenial than is generally believed. Constant vigilance, however, is needed. On the night of August 23, for example, there was a pretty sharp frost, and the night watchmen had to protect one or two of the most delicate plants with cover. ings. Oua bed of coleus got slightly nipped, but the fact that the many ottier strangers from the tropics suffered no injury on that occasion seems to show that they have not hitherto had sufficient credit for strength of constitution, and that they have been, in short, unnecessarily coddled. In another part of the park is a rosary, the soil of which is well suited to the production of the queen of the English garden. The reports from all the parks as to the behaviour of the visitors are equally gratifying. Cases of flower picking are very rare, and the beds are hardly ever trampled on. On Sundays 40,000 people may often be found in Battersea Park. They come from all parts of southern London, and the pleasure they take in the dowers and the minute attention which many give to the different varieties, both of flowers and plants, are proofs that a judi cious combination of garden with park, of flowers with trees, is greatly appreciated by poor and rich, A. cheap descriptive catalogue, kept on sale at the lodges, would add greatly to the interest of visitors, and enable those who felt so disposed to make themselves acquainted with the varieties and quali. ties of the plants. In Manchester and some other northern towns the working men have a field naturalists' society of their own, and on holidays scour the country far and near for specimens. There are many among the London artisans who have the same tastes, though they have not the same oppor tunities, and who, not being able to collect wild varieties of home growth, would gladly study the contents of the " sub-tropical" at Battersea or of other park-gardens. Poor people in London can't go to flower shows, and few can even see the bouquets in Covent-garden. This new feature in the parks is their only opportu nity of " considering the lilies, how they grow," and the testimony of park-keeper and superinten dent is that such an opportunity is very welcome to the poor, and often wins both sexes from gross amusements.— Times. Flowers in the Parks, For the last two summers an attempt has been made, and successfully made, to grow flowers in the London parks. Formerly there seems to have been an official tradition that the London smoke and soot would destroy flower life, or that London mobs would pluck the flowers and trample down the plants, or that the London people didn't care for flowers. All these notions have been dispelled; and now among the improvements which have been effected under :successive Commissioners of Works, one of the most pleasant is the pretty garden which you may now find in most of the parks. The flower walk on the east side of Hyde Park has been a blaze of colour during the season. Its glories are now on the wane, bat enough remains to show how very attractive and beautiful it has been. On the narrow strip of ground which has been laid out for flower cultiva tion there were formerly a few shrubs planted with no regard to order or effect, and in the hot weather always looking peculiar dusty and dingy. In their place are now banks of flowers, disposed riband fashion, with a setting of smooth-shaven turf, so fresh and green that it seems to have defied the drought. The beds show a pleasing variety of arrangement and of colour. In the longest and most effective you find a broad band of scarlet and yellow, of purple and white stretching without a break far away in the distance. Others, smaller, but hardly less glittering, are parted by the graceful Lacombe oak. Some have a central back of foliage plants or evergreens, and against this dark background the flowers on either side stand out more gay and glittering than ever. Geraniums and calceolarias are the most showy ; but the white centauria as an edging, and the crimson leaved pants which of late have given our gardens a new and striking contrast in colour, are introduced with excellent effect. Addison thought there were as many kinds of gardening as of poetry, " Your makers of parterres and flower-gardens are epi grammatists and sonnetteers in their art ; contrivers of bowers and grottoes, treillages and cascades, are romance writers," and Wise and Londoun he reckoned our heroic poets. The narrow limits available for floral arrangement bordering Park lane made the adoption of the sonnet style ine vitable,but great pains have been taken to avoid stiff ness and formality. The fine plane trees and elms along the walk are old friends, and their very irre■ gularity is pleasant. Above Grosvenor-gate they are found more thickly, and here the flower beds are necessarily more broken, and gardening becomes subordinate to forestry. The site of the old re servoir is more formally and less successfully laid out ; but the flower walk has become a most attrac tive promenade, and now, when everybody is sup posed to be out of town, and "society" trembles lest it should be seen within bow-shot of Hyde Park corner, thousands of poor people find pleasure in the still brilliant colours of the bedding plants, and in the pretty arrangement by which the flowers here are made to look their best. Two years ago the Avenue, Regent's-park, was a damp, dismal walk, which people wbo feared ague and rheumatism carefully avoided. According to the reports of Dr Lindley and Mr Clutton, the trees were suffering, as human beings suffer, from over• crowding and want of air. Sime one says of tree planting that, after all, it is the axe which gives the finishing touch to the picturesque ; and so it was here, for when two rows of stunted horse-chestnuts and limes were felled it was found not only that the health of the survivors was improved, but that a fine prospect was opened up. Between the two rows of tall elms and horse-chestnuts which were left standing it was decided to form a garden, and this has accordingly been done after considerable labour, but with a result which would have recompensed a far greater expenditure of time and trouble. For the clayey subsoil was substituted good mould, and special care was taken to satisfy the appetites of the various shrubs by supplying them with the food they like best. There is here a more formal style of garden than in Hyde-park, and that the beds should be intersected by numerous and ample walks is a necessity, for on the days when the band plays close by, some 40,000 or 50,000 people are assembled here, and it becomes difficult to keep moving. Here, again, the flowers are grouped in ribands, arranged with an artist's eye to colour, the gradations of silver-white, orange, purple, and scarlet seeming designed to produce a prismatic effect. Instead of being mixed with other colours, the yellow calceolaria is massed here and there, and gives warmth and brilliance to the whole group. The shrubs and foliage plants present a great variety, ane grow in great luxuriance. Nearly all the former are flowering shrubs, these being wisely preferred to the rarer novelties of late so much in request. The specimens of yucca recurva and the standard hollies —green, golden, and silver, on straight stems—are especially noticeable. The point d'appui of the gardens is a large tazza filled with flowers and sup ported by four griffins. This is planed in the centre of a large curbed bed, and 30 smaller tazzas and vases are grouped in different parts of the garden iu hara mony with its peculiar style. There are fine beds of foliage plants, such as the castor-oil plant, the Fer• dinandia. eminens, Cannaa, and Centaurea. These have thriven well in their new homes. Thus Fer. dinandias that were six inches high when planted are now six feet high ; some of the csstorsoil plants are five feet high, and the Caladiums, Centanrias, and Amaranthus have made rapid progress. Blue and yellow pansies, nasturtiums, blue lobelia, and bar-mint are planted in long ribands, in a double row, backed by tall blue larkspur and scarlet pop• pies, with ribands of aucuba japonica, rhododen dron ponticum, and Persian lilac; and behind these again stand groups of standard almonds, thorns, laburnum, the mock orange, sweet briar, and other flowering shrubs, all enclosed by a hornbeam hedge trained as a trellis. A few Lombardy poplars, with their silvery sicker, break the monotony, and add greatly to the apparent extent of the narrow strip of ground. In the summer the flowers and shrubs, flanked by the horse•chestnuts in fell blossom and the fine elms, made a glorious show ; and in another year or two, if the care and attention hitherto be stowed on this garden are continued, it will vie with any that Paris, with all its advantages of cli mate and of soil, has yet produced. We should add that the Avenue-garden was firmed under the direc tion of Mr. Markham Nesfield, whose services were rendered gratuitously, and ought not to be passed without acknowledgment. At the termination of the west garden a gardener's cottage is being built from the deaigns of Mr. W. Eden Nesfield, and wil form a pretty feature in the landscape. But the imr.rovement of improvements would be the throw ing open of the gardens north of Portland-place. If this were done, as Nash seems to have designed, and if a few trees were cut down and a way made through, the Avenue-garden would form a vista exactly in line with Regent's-street and Portland place, and London would have a line of street and garden and tree-avenue unsurpassed in any Euro pean capital. Crossing the river we reach Battersea Park, where the chow of flowers has probably snpas3ed that of both the West-end parks, while the rare f o liage plants furnish a feast of form and colour, an d shake ont's faith in all traditions tending to prove that the English climate is harsh and un genial. The sub-tropical garden is one of the wonders of London, and shows how much may be done by careful cultivation. Two years ago it was a wilderness. Though the p ar k had lon g been formed, this particular site re mained, in high way phrase, " undedicated." It was then proposed to dispossess the snipe, and mike a geometrical garden, with the usual set stiff walks and beds. Happily this selleme was aban doned, and it was determined to form instead a garden in the English style, combining rare foliage (Before Mr Sergeant Gaselee.) THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1864. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Sept. 6. Philip Muller, 51, a skindresser, and a German, was in dicted for feloniously assaulting and wounding Chas. Jones, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. _ Mr Harry Palmer prosecuted. Mr Metcalfe, instructed by Mr T. Beard for the German Legal Protection Society, defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and pro secutor were together in the NVheatsheaf public-house, in Leman-street, Whitechapel, on the afternoon of Saturday, the 27th of August, and while there a girl, named Martha Bell, went into the taproom for the purpose of roasting some broad. While she was doing so the prisoner went up to her, put his arm round her waist, and indecently assaulted her, The prosecutor remonstrated with him as to his unmanly conduct, telling him that he ought to be ashamed of himself, and especially so if he was a married man. The prisoner swore at and then struck him on the chest, The prosecutor retreated, when the prisoner struck at him with a knife, inflicting a severe wound on the forehead, which penetrated to the bone. Ho then ran away,but was pursued and given into custody. The prosecutor was taken to the London Hospital, where his wound was dressed, and he left. It was an incised wound, and penetrated to the bone. Mr Metcalfe said he could not struggle against a convic tion, but he had been retained by the German Legal Protec• tion Society to protect poor Germans, and this man had been reported to them as of a very quiet nature, but he took too much beer, and then committed this offence. This assertion of the learned counsel was contradicted by the witnesses, who said that when the assault took place the prisoner was perfectly sober. The Jury then returned a verdict of guilty, Mr Sergeant Gaselee severely commented upon the con duct of the prisoner in first committing an indecent assault upon a child of tender years, and then stabbing the prose• cutor with a knife, which was a most serious offence. In England they sometimes allowed an excuse for the use of the fist, but never when the knife was used, and it was nothing to the crelit of the prisoner thatihe had not com mitted a far more serious offence. ,That he had not done so was the act of Providence and not his own. and therefore the sentence of the Court upon him was that he be impri soned and kept to hard labour for 12 months. _ _ Charles Dawson, 24, lighterman, was indicted for steal ing 21 bottles of brandy, the property of Fred. Stutchbury, from a certain barge called the Frederick, in the port of London. The case was cleaaly made eut. A previous conviction of two years' imprisonment for felony was then proved against him. Mr Sergeant Gaselee said under tho new act he had no alternative but to sentence the prisoner to be kept in penal servitude for seven years. John Quoid, 28, boiler maker, was indicted for mali ciously inflicting grievous bodily harm upon Charles Cole. Mr Bssley, instructed by Mr Beard, prosecuted ; Mr Collins defended the prisoner. _ _ Mr Besley, in opening the caso for the prosecution, said the prisoner was indicted for assaulting the prosecutor and doing him some grievous bodily harm ; and although they had been sworn to try a misdemeanor, they would find that this was a case that would demand their most serious atten tion when they saw the state the prosecutor was in, so severely wounded as to be unable to appear in the witness box to give his evidence. The deplorable affair took place so far back as the month of May last ; but that time would be accounted for in a great measure when they learned that the prosecutor had been upwards of seven weeks an inmate of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. It appeared on Wednes day evening, May 7th, the prisoner entered the house of the prosecutor, who is the proprietor of the Windsor Castle Tavern, in the City-road, being at the time the worse for liquor and asked to be served with more drink. This was very properly refused ; but, like more of his class, the prisoner thought he could get what be required by making use of the most foul and disgusting language, and when asked to desist, he became more violent, and threatened personal injury to anyone who should inter fere with him, and went so far as to threaten their lives. The prosecutor's mother, who was in the bar, tried to per suade him to go away, but to no effect. Finding that good words were thrown away on the prisoner, the prosecutor went round to the front of the bar, opened the door, and told the prisoner to go. The prisoner then in the most savage manner rushed on the prosecutor, seized him by the neck, and when outside the house tried to strangle him. The pri soner then threw him down, and fell upon him with all his force. The prosecutor got up and tried to get away from I him, and go into the house by the side door, when the prisoner rushed at h m, kicked him three times on the leg, the effect of which was to break it in two places. The pri soner then ran away, but was pursued by a witness named Hackle, who was passing at the time, and when overtaken by him, prisoner kicked him in a most savage manner, and at the same time used threats of a very violent nature, and he seemed more like a wild beast than a man. The prosecutor was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he kept his bed for several weeks, during which time his life was in great danger, and he would probably suffer through the injury for the remainder of his life, The prosecutor was brought into court, walking with a pair of crutches, and being accommodated with a seat on the floor of the court, gave in evidence the facts above stated, and his evidence was confirmed by several other witnesses. Mr Bowater John Vernon, house surgeon at St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, said about eleven o'clock on the night of the 7th of May the prosecutor was brought to the hospital. His left leg was broken in two places below the knee. Both bones were broken, and the whole of the leg was very much bruised. Mr Cole was quite sober. For some days after he was very ill, and for a week his life was in danger. He remained in bed in the hospital testa the 15th of July, and then he was discharged a cripple. He was for a portion of the time suffering under delirium tremens. It would be some time before ho would recover. and one leg would be shorter than the other for the rest of his life. In cross-examination by Mr Collins, he said that tho broken leg would still be a very useful one, but it would always be a little shorter than the other. The prosecutor had delirium tremens, and but for this his leg would have been amputated. Mr Collin: —Then it was a very good thing for him that he had delirium tremens, as it saved his leg. Mr Vernon—ln his case it did, for if ho had not had it his leg would have been amputated. Mr Collins—'l hen delirium tremens saved his leg. Had he not had it his leg would have been cut off ? probably hi s l eg wou l d h ave been cut off. Mr Collins—Then do you cut off people's legs if they do not vrn happeenotn_ohave delirium t remens ? ws should have endeavoured to save the man's life by cutting off hi s l eg. Mr Collins said in such a case he would advise persons who might have a broken leg never to go to St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, or they would have it cut off unless they had got delirium tremens. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr Collins, for the prisoner, said it appeared, according to the evidence of the surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hos pital, he would have cut off the leg of the prosecutor, there tore it was fortunate for him that he had that dreadful malady. Under such circumstances the learned counsel would advise people to be very shy in putting themselves under the care of this surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hos pital if they had a broken leg, and unfortunately did not have delirium tremens. He then went on to contend that there was no malicious intention, and hoped the jury would consider that the case only amounted to a comm on assault. The jury found the prisoner guilty of an assault for the purpose of causing bodily harm. Mr Sergeant Gaselee said this was a very brutal act, as he (th e prisoner) had rendered this man a cri pp le for life. The sentence of the Court upon him was, that he be im prisoned and kept to hard labour for 18 c alendar months. George Fenwick, 34, shoemaker, i a ederick Newland, 22, Sayer, 3o , bootinaker, l abourer, Ellen Evans, 27, Edward and John Davis, 23, boot-closer, were indicted for being found by night, without lawful ex cuse, in the possession of a jemmy and other implements of housebreaking, with in tent to commit a felony. Mr Grantham prosecuted ; the prisoners were unde fended, George Ranger, 10 G, he was with Inspector Potter on sa id on the 18 th August, at half. past 12 o' c l oc k at night, Clerkenwell-gr een near to the Sessions - house, in plain clothes, when h e saw the male prisoners at the bar. They followed them into Leather -lane, from there into Bald win's-gardens, and from there into Baldwin's-place. There they were mot by two females, of whom the prisoner was one. He sto o d st i ll for so me minutes, and saw Fenwick then lay under a car t and watched them. Whil e h e was watching them he sa w and Davis pa ss hi m, an d he Fenwick pass a j emmy to Newland. Saw Newland t ry to force a doOr, a b ou t three yards from the cart un d er which ho was lying, with the jemmy. He crept out of his hiding place to see if he could find another constable. Cam e close to him and gave the alarm, and the others ran away. (Buckstone), and a s h e was speaking to him Fenwick He saw Police-constable 1 48 G kb bllowed Fenwick and Newl an d He saw Say ers pass something to Evans. to Liquorpond-street, and there took them both into cua. tody. He told them that he c h ar ged th em , w i t h others, for attempting to break open a warehouse in Bald w i n ' a-place, and they said they knew nothing about it. Having left the prisoners at the station house , he went back a nd found marks of violence on the door. fie afterwards saw the f ema l e pri saner with another man not in custody. He took her into custody, and asked her what she had got about her, and she said " Nothing." He charged her with being concerned with Newland and Fenwick in committing a robbery. He afterwards asked her if she had got any skeleton keys about her, and she said she had not. As the prisoners were run ning away he heard something drop which sounded like a jemmy, d o s pe , e an t arhswnse brought cd s r k o t h a t u ha a t i g i n v e o h d i n p ut Inspector Potter, of the G. division, said he was with the prisoners into t o heu so n we e atel h r ar stndeodat sta tion nhi getnde last witness on the night in question, who was in private o cllu t )oo b skt e thoe r h edct o o sy lE , u a. a s t c: tHd r h } s , eie e nni t i l o sl w .ter a f i ut s e addresses given by them, ho went to Fenwicles lodgings, I ise k ßi t see at ainnghde Ranger him.xn:Nt to. saw a w il;Hv l o a a e n nFt No 4, Verulam-street, Gray's lon-lane, where he found two skeleton keys, a small chisel, and a portion of a centre bit. He was preßeE{t when the wowau Evans was brought RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, SHROPSHIRE UNION. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Shrewsbury on Monday, Mr 11. Tootal in the chair. The Secretary (Mr Wragg,.) having read the notice con vening the meeting, the report of the directors was, on the motion of the C ITAIRMAN, seconded by Mr HeLYoALE, adopted. A dividend at the rate of £ 17s 6d per cent per annum was declared. Mr G. R. Jebb was elected an auditor in the room of Mr 119zledine, retired. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. STONEHOUSE AND NAILSWORTH. The half -yearly meeting of this company was held at Nsilsworth on Saturday, Mr W. Wayne in the chair. The report stated that since last meeting the construc tion of the works had been pushed forward by the contrac tors with the utmost vigour. More than two-thirds of the lend required had been handed over to them, and the works wore progressing in a most satisfactory manner. The engi neer reported that five-eighths of the entire earthwork had been removed, and half of the masonry in bridges, culverts, and retaining walls was finished. The directors had every confidence that the works would be completed in May, 1865, unless soma untoward circumstances should arise. The report was unanimously adopted, and the retiring directors, Mr Flint and Mr Ford, were re-elected. CENTRAL ARGENTINE. It appears that Mr T. Armstrong-, of;Buenos Ayres, has joined the Board of this company as resident director of the company, and its represerttative at the seat of Governmput of the Agent!:4e Republic, in by Ranger. Ho went from Fenwick's lodgings to a ware house in Baldwin's-place, in consequence of what Ranger had told him, and found marks of violence on the door, under the lock, corresponding with the jemmy produced. On making a search he found a skeleton key near the door. He then went in the company of It anger to Peartree-court, Coppice-row, and watched the house for some time where Sayers lived. He thought the house was No. 4. They watched it until the door was opened by some one in the house. He went upstairs with Ranger, and found Sayers, another man, and five women in the room. As soon as he opened the door he saw Sayers Bit down on a stool, and he picked up a boot partly made, and said " Look here ; it is not me you want." To this remark he made no reply whatever, and in consequence of an intimation he received from Ranger he left the house, but had it watched. He was at the station house when the prisoner Evans was brought in, and saw the skeleton keys taken from her by the female searcher. James Buckstone, police-constable 184 G, said ho was at hand on this night, and heard a cry of " Stop thief." He went up and picked up a jemmy four or five yards from the door of the house in Baldwin's-place, and near where New land and Fenwick had been standing. Mrs Crockford, searcher at Clerkenwell station, proved finding seven skeleton keys in the possession of Evans. The male prisoners cross-examined the witnesses with considerable effrontery, and they afterwards addressed the jury. Mr Sergeant Gaselee summed up the evidence, and after a few minutes' consultation the jury found all the prisoners guilty. Previous convictions were then proved, with sentences of penal servitude, against all the male prisoners ; in three cases second convictions, with similar sentences, at the Central Uriminal Court, Surrey Sessions, and also in this court. Police constable 200 G said he had known the woman Evans as the associate of thieves for the last 13 years. She induced young women to go out shoplifting, but generally managed to escape herself. Inspector Potter said he apprehended Davis on a former occasion, and found on him a number of skeleton keys. When he was taken into custody witness and other officers were kicked and knocked about by the prisoner's com panions. Mr Sergeant Gaselee said ho had no doubt they all be longed to a regular gang; and that they were old hands was shown by the way in which they conducted their de fence. All the four men had had previous convictions, and been sentenced to penal servitude, but as it had no effect on them ; the time was come that they should be got rid of. The sentence on each of them was to be kept in penal ser vitude for seven years, and the woman to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 18 calendar months. Mr Begley, for Mr Grantham, said the Grand Jury had recommended, in returning the bill, that Inspector Potter and the other officers should receive some reward from the Court for their praiseworthy conduct in bringing this gang of offenders to justice. Mr Sergeant Gaselee said it was quite true the Grand Jury had strongly recommended Inspector Potter and the other officers under him for a reward for bringing these daring burglars to justice ; but unfortunately, by an ano maly in the law the Court had not the power to give effect to that recommendation. The Grand Jury were quite right in doing so, and he could say on the part of the magistrates. that they greatly regretted they had not the power to mark their sense of their conduct by ordering them a pecuniary reward ; but if they could make a re port which would benefit them they should be most happy to do so. • Mr Inspector Potter, on being called into the box, said that at the last sessions two officers were ordered a reward of two guineas each in a similar case. Mr Sergeant Gaselee asked Inspector Potter to mention the matter again to-morrow, and if it were found that the Court had any power to order a reward it would most gladly be done. Mr Inspector Reid, ➢i division, who was on duty. in formed the bunch that the favourable remarks which had fallen from his lordship would be made known to the com missioners. Robert Biggs, 39, clerk, a most respectable-looking man, was indicted for embezzling £1 15s. and other sums, re ceived by bim for and on accouat of John Quick and others, his masters. Mr Ribton appeared for the prosecution. The charge against the prisoner was, that he received money for coals supplied from different coal-wharves, and had not accounted for it ; but it appeardd he had a sort of roving commission from different persons to get orders for them, and was paid a commission on the orders so obtained. Mr Metcalfe, as amicus curie, submitted that the prisoner was merely a commission agent; that the prosecutor could not compel him to solicit orders, and that he was therefore not:a clerk or servant to him within the meaning of the statute, Mr Sergeant Gaselee said he would reserve this point for the consideration of the Court of Criminal Appeal. The result of the trial ended in a verdict of guilty, but the prisoner was allowed to enter into recognisances in the sum of £lO for his appearance whilst awaiting the decision of the Court of Criminal appeal. The Court did not adjourn until near 7 o'clock. Salmon Fisheries in Cumberland. The salmon fishery season for nets, which was brought to a close with the beginning of this month, has been, upon the whole, very satisfactory in the Eden, although the droughtiness of the latter part of the summer prevented it from being so excellent as it would otherwise have been. In the early spring the rivers were in splendid condition for salmon running, and the fishermen were rewarded ith good hauls soon after they commenced opera tions. As the season advanced they had good takes of salmon and grilse, and it was observed that the salmon-trout, of which the supplies were consider able, were larger this year than usual. The drought alone prevented the season from being excellent; as it is, it may be pronounced equal to last year. The stake Lets on the Scotch side of the Solway have had a great run of luck since the close season commenced on the English side. Those fixed engines are not out of season till the 25th Septem• ber, and in the stormy weather of the last few days they have taken some great hauls of salmon and grilse. On the Ist of January next, according to the new Scotch Salmon Fisheries Act, all the fixed engines on the Scotch side of the Solway, except such as exist by virtue of " grant, charter, or imme. mori.al usage,"—and it is believed they will be very few—will become illegal, as on the English side ; and it is expected that the abolition of these impe. diments to the free run of fish will greatly benefit the Cumberland rivers as well as those on the Scotch side, By an old law of Scotland fixed engines are illegal in the estuary of a river ; but many have long existed in the estuaries of the Annan, the Nith, and the Esk, because their limits were not defined. This year, however, by virtue of the powers vested in them by the Act referred to, the Salmon Fishery Commissioners have fixed the boundaries ; and an influential association of salmon fishery proprietors and others—including the Duke of Buccleucb, the Earl of Carlisle, Sir Frederick Graham, and others —has recently been formed to take steps to enforce the law, which, it is said, will be resisted by the stake net proprietors, who have taken no steps for the removal of their nets since the by-laws were Passed. At a meeting held at Carlisle a few days ago a subscription list was opened to carry out the purposes of the association, and several handsome sums were subscribed. The association comprises river proprietors in the Eden, Esk, Annan, and Nith. A YORKSHIRE FARMER CHARGED WITH AT TEMPTED BURGLARY. Some time ago James Stanley, a farmer, residing at Hudwell, Yorkshire, was robbed of £3OO in a very mysterious way. He was in the habit of concealing his money in the parlour, and during hia and his wife's absence at market, the house was entered and his cash stolen. Amongst the persons who were in the habit of visiting him was a farmer named Maynel, and Stanley became impressed with the idea that it was he who had committed the robbery. Stanley, however, could obtain no information on which to accuse Maynel; and although every exertion was male to trace the thief, nothing was heard either of him or the money. The friendship existing between Stanley and Maynel at once ceased. On Saturday night the 20th ult., Stanley, his wife, and two friends were sitting in the kitchen of Mr Stanley's house. They were conversing together, and, amongst other topics, they began to talk about Maynel and the robbery. Suddenly a noise was heard at the parlour window, and Mr Stanley's friends ran cut to ascertain the cause. They dis covered Maynel and another man, the former in the act of entering the parlour, and having his head and shoulders through the window, When they found they were dis covered they endeavoured to make their escape. Maynel was followed, and on getting on the road he stopped and allowed his pursuers to come up with him. He gave no explanation as to his reason for being on Stanley's premises, and the police were communicated with. Maynel was brought up at the Richmond Police Court last Saturday, and the hearing of the charge occupied several hours. Maynel strongly asserted his innocence, and alleged that Stanley had brought the charge in consequence of feelings of animosity. Ile stated that he and another per son were passing Stanley's house, and hearing his own name mentioned during a loud conversation which was taking place inside, he stopped to listen in order to learn what they were saying about him. He heard them accuse him of the robbery, and he shouted loudly that they were liars. Upon this they came out of the house, and some words ensued. Ho denied that he was on Stanley's ground at all, or that he had ever left the road. A witness was called in support of his statement , The Bench retired to consider their decision, and ultimately discharged the pri soner. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—The news of Muller's capture will excite an emotion which it is hard to analyse. His escape would not have affected in any appreciable degree the security of any human being, for the repetition of such an act by the same person would be a por tent, and the readiness with which the murder was traced to him would serve to counteract the con tagion of his example. Moreover, his arrest was as certain as any future event can be. There was no chance of the Victoria arriving at New York before the steamer which conveyed the police officers and witnesses, and it was absurd to suppose that the resources of two powerful Governments could be baffled by such artifices as imaginary persons were reported to be contriving for the purpose of rescuing him without even an imaginary motive. The satis faction which the public feels, and which philoe sophe rs will not be ashamed to share, in the appre hecsion of this wretched fugitive owes little to the temporary panic excited by his crime and the remote possibility of his impunity. It is simply due to the stern instinct of retributive justice implanted by Providence in the hearts of all men for the protection of society. Vengeance upon a wrongdoer, and espe cially upon an assassin, is consolatory to a righteous mind, not because it gratifies a malevolent passion but because it tends to confirm our confidenc e in the supremacy of law over the destructive forces of human nature. Whatever may be said to the con trary, this supremacy is more and more assured as c i v ilization advances. This very case furni s h es a proof of the fact. `A.aough Muller's plans do not appear to have been laid with any great skill, he would probably have got clear away if he had lived 30 or 40 years ago. It is true that a robber must then have chosen some other scene for his :attack than a railway carriage; but steam and the telegraph have done more to facilitate the detection than the commission of crime. They have armed the police with the means of following up a clue in a way that was before impossible, and stultified the old saying of the poet about the halting pace of Justice. Photography, too, lent its aid in the identification of Muller, and publicity, of which the use for this purpose is one of the most recent inventions, was the immediate agency by which suspicion was brought home to him. The conspicuous success of these defensive weapons on a remarkable occasion helps to ac count for the universal sentiment of joy at the prospect of Muller's conviction. If it be true that the hat and watch of the murdered man have actually been found on the prisoner's person, it would be idle to entertain or pretend any doubt as to his criminality—at least as an accessory. It is hardly possible to frame an hypothesis upon which all the presumptions which converge upon Muller could have been raised against an innocent man. We have positive evidence that it was he who pawned the watch chain, who sold the pawn ticket, who was iu possession of the jeweller's box Procured at Mr.:Death's, and who wore Mr. Briggs's hat immediately after the murder. The only thing that throws the least shade of doubt on the case, so far as our present knowledge goes, is the almost in credible infatuation exhibited by Muller if conscious of being guilty. That he should have incurred such a risk for the sake of so small a prize, have remained so long among his old associates, have made so little effort to conceal his spoils, and se lected a sailing-ship to make his escape, is marvel. lous enough ; but why he should have kept the hat and watch, instead of burying them in the depths of the sea, is inure inexplicable still. But for this circumstance we might have pictured to ourselves the mind of the conscious murderer haunted by the restless conviction that the pursuers were on his track, and striving in vain to obliterate all trace of the identity of himself and the young German ace quaintance of the cabman Matthews. No such ter rors, however, seem to have aggravated the tor ments of his own conscience, if, indeed, we can sup pose that he experienced even these, for no feature in his conduct that has yet come to light betrays any sense of his awful guilt. Six weeks passed away on the passage, and he must have had ample time for reflection and remorse, for dismal thoughts of retribution awaiting him, for wild longing that the fate of Jonah might be his; and yet all that we know of him after he wrote the letter that was to tell so strongly against him is that he still retained Mr Briggs's hat and watch when he was arrested at New York, and that he protested his innocence. It is a strange _story . from beginning to end, but the strangest part of it is the disproportion between the audacious enormity of the crime and the feebleness of the attempt to escape its consequences. While Muller's name was on every tongue, and every family was discussing various theories of the murder, the archculprit him. self, for all that appears, was calmly traversing the Atlantic, his fears lulled to sleep, and his ingenuity inactive, till he was awoke by the horrible vision of the inspector and the two witnesses whose testis mony was to seal his doom. It is possible that some little time may elapse before Muller can be brought back to this country and handed over to the authee rities at Bow-street, whence the warrant for his arrest was issued. We are informed that the pro ceedings preliminary to his extradition were already commenced when the mail left, and unless a wholly new and quite inconceivable aspect should have been given to the case in the course of the examination, he will be surrendered with the least possible delay. Though the evidence was somewhat hastily got up, and the departure of the officers hurried by the urgency of the necessity, the strongest circum - stan. tial proofs of guilt must be at their disposal. Short of having seen the murder committed,Mr Death and Matthews have sworn to facts upon which, unless rebutted, any magistrate would f ee l b oun d t o com mit a prisoner for trial. This is all that is required by the terms of the Extradition Treaty, and it would be a gross injustice to American tribunals to doubt that it will be strictly an d honourably en forced in the present case. Hitherto every assistance is said to have been given by the New York police to the English officers, and whatever difficulties may have arisen upon requisitions involving conflicts between the municipal laws of Great Britain and the United States, there is no room for similar obstructions here. No civilised nation willingly grants an asylum to persons charged with a highway murder of the worst type, without palliation or qualifying circumstances. We may expect therefore, with some confidence, that the next mail will bring the news of Muller being in the custody of Inspector Tanner, who was fol lowed, it should be remembered, by Inspector la.er ressey with fresh materials for the preliminary in. quiry. If so, the tragedy on the North London Railway will soon lose the last vestige of mystery, and we may perhaps learn, for the hundredth time, how small a degree of canning and daring suffices for the perpetration of atrocities which terrify whole millions of people. POST.—Upon the whole the prospects for the fall of the year end the winter are unquestionably more cheerful than two months ago it was anticipated they could be. It will require care and prudence to carry on without tripping till the spring of next year, no doubt : but we do not see, either in the present or probable future condition of the country, any ground for general alarm, still less for general panic. The harvest is so nearly concluded that it is not difficult to estimate the results with an ap proximation sufficient to enable us to form a pretty good judgment of our situation in regard to the supply of food in hand. The wheat crop, notwith standing the long drought and heat, under the in fluence of which it was somewhat prematurely ripened, appears to be very little, if at all, below the average, and the quality throughout the coun try is pronounced to be unusually good. There is, besides, owing mainly no doubt to the low rate at which prices have ruled for now a long period, a considerable stock from last year's harvest still in hand. Foreign supplies too promise to furnish a fully sufficient supplement to our means, and there is therefore no reas on to su pp ose that the prices of wheat and bread are likely to rise beyond what the population in the present condition of the commerce and labour of the country will be able to pay without serious strain upon their resources, or very appreci able diminution in the provision they havebeen accus tomed to make under the exceptionally low prices for necessaries hitherto obtaining for the comforts and luxuries of life, With regard to meat, however, we fear the prospect is less encouraging. Root crops, upon which the farmer mainly relies, have unquestionably been as nearly as possible a complete failure throughout the kingdom. Hay, too, is un doubtedly short in quantity, though probably of average quality—and the stock farmer will have to depend largely, if not mainly, upon manufactured foods, upon linseed cake, and malted or oth erw i se prepared grain, to render his cattle' or she e p fit f or market. In addition to this disadvantage, which is exceptional, and attaches only to the current year there is another of a longer standing, and not easy apparently to master and remove. Saran years ago, owing to various circumstances, the amount of young and lean stock was suffered to fall to a very low ebb—far too low for the requirements of the country—and up to this moment supply has never been able to overtake demand. We have never sue- ceeded in filling up thelgap then created, partly by a severe winter and a great advance in the cost of breeding and keeping s tock,and partly by an almost universal misapprehension as to the results of free trade in cattle ; and we now find ourselves with high prices, a short supply, and a root crop that will not suffice even for that deficient stock. Mr. Gladstone's modification of the malt duties may be of some service, but the restrictions with which the new law is ha:n7cred will, we fear, seriously limit its application; perhaps render it altogether nu gatory. Nor eau it in any case remove the (head. railings imposed upon the stook.-brcOrr by the inability which he still labours under to substitute beer for the milk which is now used in the diet for his men to the detriment of the young beasts. Ws know, too, now from experience, that we cannot, in the matter of animal food, look to foreign coml. tries to supplement our short comings, as we can in the case of corn. We fear, therefore, that we must anticipate a still further advance its the already high price of meat. We must hope that the activity which, notwithstanding the close of the season, appears to obtain in all the principal branches of our trade and manufactures, and the consequent steady and remunerative employment afforded to the labouring population, will enable them to bear the burden. From all the great centres of industry there arrive unusually good accounts, and enterprises and business seem to be far less affected than was anticipated by the high rates of interest. In fact, the extraordinary multiplication of joint-stock banks, the extensive institution of huge money-lending companies, and the consequent aggregation and activity of innumerable small. amounts of capital which were formerly compara tively dormant, or very limited in their sphere of movement, have rendered the speculative and trade ing elements in the community far less dependent than they have been hitherto accustomed to be upon the Bank of England, and the wielding of the Act of 1844 by its directors. That once famous act has in truth, almost ceased to be operative, since it has become an accepted fact that its call to active prese .. sure will always result in a suspension of its exist ence and a neutralisation of its influence the moment the one or the other threatens a serious stoppage of credit. It is true that the great increase of these banks and financial companies, the enormous amount • of real and apparent capital which they scraped together from all corners of the world, and the hitherto unheard-of degree to which they offered to loan it to undertakers of all kinds of enterprises excited at one time a great deal of alarm, and it is no doubt true also that this alarm had no small share in determining the foreign policy which the Government propounded, and the Parliament adopted, in the Dano-German difficulty—a policy of which we expressed our strong disapprobation, which exposed us to much obloquy, and of which. wo have not yet in all probability seen the results. A very large number of people, formerly absolutely unspeculative, suddenly found themselves involved to a very uncomfortable extent in every imaginable undertaking at home and abroad. They felt as if they were voyaging with themselves and their for tune on their back, embarked in a monster balloon, and they shivered with terror lest a spark from a Danish or German pipe should fall on their huge machine, blow it up with one terrific explosion, and leave them tumbling through space to hopeless destruction. We cannot retrace our steps, but we have passed through that stage of apprehension. The accounts of the financial companies have sue* cessfully stood the ordeal of examination. They have not been perceptibly influenced by the wons derful fluctuations hurriedly declared from time to time by the directors of the Bank of England, who fancy, apparently, that they have a never-ending mission to control enterprise as well as to secure dividends for their shareholders, and the general public seems to hope that its huge balloon may float on pretty comfortably for the next six months or so at all events. Such being the present condition and prospects of agriculture and commerce, we shall be justified, we trust, in anticipating an autumn and winter not altogether unsatisfactory—not, per haps, without an active prosperity, COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL—TuEssAy. About the usual attendance today, but little businceg doing in wheat, although previous prices were maintained• barley and maize dull. Oats in good demand. Peas and beans very firm. LEEDS-TUESDAY. There was a moderate show of fresh grain this day el market. The demand for wheat is limited. Fresh old barely supported last Tuesday's prices, but new must be quoted is to 2s lower. Barley met a dull trade. Other articles realise late rates. Averages—Sept. 6—Wheat 43s Sid per qr.. —Oats ...23s 3d - - —Beans 41s 4101 - --- —Peas ..35s 0(1 —Barley 27s 101c1 MONMOUTH—TuEsnAy. The local markets have been fairly attended by both buyers and sellers during the last six or seven days, ax an average business has been done, at about former rato. , Wheat in moderate demand, but not so firm in price as month ago. The average quotations are as follows : Wheat, white 5s 3d to 5s 9d I Barley.. 3s 4d to 3s Si Ditto red.....0s Od to Os Od Oats . 2s 2d to 2s 9° LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. There was a small attendance of both town and count iT dealers at market to-day, but the business done was quite c; a retail character. English wheat sold slowly at Frida prices, or a trifle under those of last week. Prices for ilia may be quoted about 6d per barrel and is per sack lower as the week. Oats and oatmeal made the prices of last week► with a very slow trade. Barley and peas are nominally un altered. Egyptian beans 6cl to is dearer. Indian corn irti moderate demand for feeding. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. Old wheat, with a limited sale, made last week's prices , and new wheat sold at a reduction of Is, best samples e%s' cepted. Beans were difficult to buy, and other articles unchanged. Red wheat, par load of 3 imperial bushels...l6s Od to 17s 01 White ,) , ...17s Gd to 19s O'' New red : ,..18s Od to 208,0 4 New white ~ 9, ), tt Peas, per qr : .. :1 1 4 8 s s 66dd to o 2 15 0 : 6 0 i Beans 40s Od to 44s cl s i G r inding barley, per qr 28s Od to 320 0 , Malting ditto, „ 32s Od to 35s 91 Oats I, 22s Od to 27s ()d Flour, Is Gd to is 10d per 14 lb. I KIRKCALDY GRAIN—SEPT. 3. We had small supplies of wheat, oats, and barley a t ottr .. market to-day Sales slow. Wh ea t a bout is per qr oVe' last week, but barley and oats unchanged. t Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....4ls Od 3os 6d 2ls Od Second ..39s Od 28s Od 19s 6d Third....27s 6d 24s Od 18s Od Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Sept. 16 „' via Marseilles ... .. Sept. 1 " . Zrazil and Capo Verde, by British packet. Sept. , i- Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Sept. 2 ° ' Mina, Penang, and Singapore, vi a Southaropton.Sept. liii via Marseilles ...Sept. 1 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Sept. 10 ' India (Calcutta) I S' , and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. via Marseilles... • Sept , i India (Bombay), via Southampton Sept. l' ,i' ' via Marseilles Sept. i• Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. •' via Marseilles Sept. li Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo , U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Sept. au. by U.S. packet.... a , by Canadian packet. Sept. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru ' California. and British Columbia. j Sept. Is' . 4 ' [ADYERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills' ho Constant Success.—No diseases a r e more t r yi ng to t o temper and more exhausting to the constituti on than. 1 "4 pains in the muscles and joints, caused by exposure to or cold, Wherever the seat of suffering, it will be 013ro f necessary to foment the affected part with warm water, 61 , thoroughly, and immediately rub in Holloway's inestital" ointmeLt to obtain ease. Gout, rheumatism, neuralgia, 0 0 tic-doloreux are soon relieved and ultimately cured by use of this equalled unguent and by Holloway's puriffi lj ; and operative pills. Under this judicious treatment 03 , afflicted parts soon cease to ache, and shortly regain thr natural feelings and appearance. The se reme di es are 11? valuable for curing spinal affections and nervous dims's°, Births. of A L ow T fi n afe k eoo m f. . 3 7 7 o jo n r t A he ith 4t a h m i:a o s f t., a a d t au S g to h k t e er. Court, Somerset, - , 0 10 Coox.--At 8, Clifford-street, W Mrs. Thomas W. Li °- ~ 10 1 Tunoit,—On th e sth i ns t., a t Dorchester, the wife of 0° Tudor, Esq., of a son. WitEELEu,—On the 4th inst., at High Wycombe, MO' T, Wheeler, of a eon, al Marriages. B RADFORD —LANE.—On the 3d inn., at Hove, latos George N. J. Bradford, Eeq., Bth (King's) Regoo? youngest son of Colonel Bradford, to Alice Julia,„ y ou ngest daughter of the late John Lane, Esq., of P`l ton Grange, Essex. ,„11 S T . CLAIR—BoDEN.--On. the 6th inst., at St. I)alston, the Rev. George St. Clair, F.G.S., of:Regem park, to Emma, youngest daughter of the late JolP Boden, Esq,, of Salop. Deaths. BLTLT.—On the sth inst., at the Royal Laboratory,,, fr.! port, Arthur, the youngest son of Captain Bayly, aged five months. -he? EsrlN.—On the 4th inst., at Cintra House, Syde,—.get' Dill, John Espin, Esq., formerly of Davies-street, keley-square, aged 58. I . O pE FltEND.—On the sth inst., C a r o li n e Isabella, tho WI • , - Ed win Frend, Esq., of Wray-park, Reigate, aged • the sth inst., at 10, Chepstow Villa* Bayswater, Wm. Hopkins, Esq., aged 51. 14 REEVE.—On the 3d inst., at Leadeuham House, Lin e ,' shire, the Lady Susan Reeve, wife of General 4A t' and youngest daughter of Philip, fifth Earl - borough. 1p SUMMERS.—On the 4th inst., Robert Summers, fort° es of Bath-street, City-road, age, 79, London: Prinzed and PrNtshed by WILLIAM ANlli— of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office 7461 ' 0 ,0 ) Strand, in the Precinct of the lavoy,' , n the CQ III3 Aliddlesex,—Wednesday, September 7,1864.